If you’re enjoying Every Year After on Prime Video and want to check out the source material, or find out what happens next, you’re in luck. Carley Fortune’s book series, called the Every Summer After series, is easy to find and breezy to get through. You can do it in no time!
The story takes place over two timelines. In one, childhood sweethearts are torn apart. In the other, they’re grown up and coming back together. It’s a theme that Fortune favors (excuse the pun) in her writing a few times. The second chance romance is set in Ontatio’s cottage country, which you may have heard can be very romantic.
The two books in the Every Summer After series, in order:
The series that the Prime Video drama is based on is actually a duology. Unless Fortune decides to write another installment—and maybe she will if the television adaptation is a big hit—this is a short series.
This is the first book, published in 2022, is all about a woman named Persephone and her ex-sweetheart Sam reconnecting as adults in the lakeside town where they grew up together.
The sequel was published in 2025 and gives Sam’s brother Charlie a love story of his own with a vacationing photographer named Alice.
Other books by Carley Fortune in publication order:
Fortune’s other romance novels are equally summery but not set in the same universe.
Another second chance romance published in 2023, this time between a woman named Fern Brookbanks and a man named Will Baxter.
Fortune’s 2024 book is the forbidden romance between a woman and her BFF’s younger brother, a hot oyster shucker named Felix. (Not that forbidden, though... is it?!)
Fortune’s most recent book was published in 2026 and is an angsty AF friends-to-lovers (maybe??) story that focus on two BFFs, Frankie and George, who have to face the chemistry between them when, in an effort to cheer her up after her fiancé dumps her, decide to go on vacation together.
